| 1 | !!FridgeLogic |
| 2 | * The idea that the actress playing the refugee child wouldn't tell the world what happened simply because she signed a contract is frankly unconvincing. |
| 3 | ** Also the very fact of casting an aspiring actress seems like a pretty huge risk, especially if she hits it big afterward. |
| 4 | *** Wasn't she told that if she goes public, the secret service would have her killed? |
| 5 | ** For that matter, the ''entire United States Armed Forces'' are ''not'' in on it, nor are any of the inevitable swarm of reporters sent to war zones. Or the entire nation of Albania and its neighbors. Or any other country with any kind of contact with it. In fact, the ruse can only work if no-one in the media does any work whatsoever other than read press releases and run stock footage. |
| 6 | *** That's the point--that the public will accept anything the media tells them, the media are nothing but puppets, and the puppet masters control everything. |
| 7 | *** That's just the line of logic the protagonists are betting their money on: that the public are idiots, the media is weak, powerless, and willing to do anything for a good scoop and that no-one can/will stop them. The moment anything goes against this (say, the news finds out about what actually happened because it's a great story that would get a lot of traffic (Three sacks of shit try to save the ass of pedo president by thinking the world is dumb enough to believe in a war that isn't actually happening), which spreads to the masses who also begin to question what happened, which leads to the disgrace of everyone involved) their entire plan crumbles like a house of cards. |
| 8 | *** Remember Baghdad Bob? Would it be too far fetched imagining the US media ridiculing an Albanian spokesperson, when they can show what's ''really'' going on in Albania? |
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